Dysphagia Diet Level 1, Pureed

A dysphagia diet is for people who have problems with chewing or swallowing. This diet limits foods to certain textures that make it easier and safer to swallow. This dysphagia pureed diet is restricted to:

Foods that are "pudding-like" and have the same textural consistency, such as smooth yogurt, custard, or mashed potatoes.

Foods that do not contain coarse textures, raw fruits or vegetables, or nuts.

Foods that do not include bread or bread-like textures.

Foods prepared so they can be swallowed with minimal or no chewing.

FOOD TEXTURES

Beverages

Recommended: Any smooth beverages without lumps, chunks, or pulp. Beverages will need to be thickened to appropriate consistency.

Avoid: Any beverages with lumps, chunks, seeds, or pulp.

You are currently limited to one of the following liquid consistency levels:

Recommended: Creamy mashed potatoes, pureed potatoes with gravy, butter, margarine, or sour cream. Well-cooked pasta, noodles, bread dressing, or rice that has been pureed in a blender to a smooth consistency.

Recommended: Soups that have been pureed in a blender or strained. These soups may need to be thickened to appropriate consistency.

Avoid: Soups that have chunks or lumps.

Vegetables

Recommended: Pureed vegetables without chunks, lumps, pulp, or seeds. Tomato paste or sauce without seeds. Tomato or vegetable juice. These juices may need to be thickened to appropriate consistency if juice is thinner than prescribed liquid consistency.

Avoid: All other vegetables that have not been pureed. Tomato sauce with seeds or thin tomato juice.